Definition of Rooster

Definition of Rooster

Definition of Rooster

1. Noun. A male domestic fowl, ''Gallus gallus''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rooster

1. a male chicken [n -S]

Medical Definition of Rooster

1.
The male of the domestic fowl; a cock. "Nor, when they [the Skinners and Cow Boys] wrung the neck of a rooster, did they trouble their heads whether he crowed for Congress or King George." (W. Irving)
Source: Websters Dictionary
(01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Rooster

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1.Primitive Love and Love-stories by Henry Theophilus Finck (1899)"THE GALLANT rooster The dictionary makers derive the word gallant from all sorts
... Why not derive if from the Latin gallus, rooster? A rooster combines in ..."

2.Here and Now Story Book: Two-to Seven Year Olds; Experimental Stories by Lucy Sprague Mitchell (1921)"The rooster he goes "cock a doodle doo! You want me and I want you, ... The little
hen goes "cut cut cut," The rooster he steps with a funny little strut, ..."

3.Here and Now Story Book: Two-to Seven Year Olds; Experimental Stories by Lucy Sprague Mitchell (1921)"THE LITTLE HEN AND THE rooster The little hen goes "cut cut cut." The rooster he
goes "cock a doodle doo ! You want me and I want you, But I'm up here and ..."

4.University of California Publications in Education by University of California (1868-1952) (1920)"SÍ t^ "== -2 If the rooster crows in the door, it is the sign the minister is
coming If a rooster stands on the doorstep and crows before breakfast, ..."

5.An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)"rooster—contd. 1842 The rooster as a pictorial sign of Democratic victory ; also
the " Old ... 1844 Balanced on one leg, there stands the same old rooster, ..."

6.Mazama: A Record of Mountaineering in the Pacific Northwest by Or Mazamas (Portland, Mazamas (Portland, Or.) (1907)"rooster Rock, that interesting point on the banks of the Columbia River a short
... rooster Rock has long been of interest to Mazamas on account of the ..."

7.The Cambrian (1898)"A JAPANESE rooster The National museum at Washington has just received an example of
... The fowl in question is a rooster. This rooster probably would not ..."